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Toadstool
Mushrooms are a wonder to me. This sturdy toadstool popped up in a shaded lawn, literally, overnight. See a larger version of this image by clicking on the photo. The post Toadstool appeared first on...
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Earth Mover
This tiny mushroom shows extraordinary determination and strength, pushing up a comparatively large chunk of the forest floor to make it’s debut. To view a larger version of this image, click on the...
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Fiery Fungi
This was a great find on the forest floor at Potawatomi State Park, near Sturgeon Bay on Wisconsin’s Door County peninsula. I don’t know what kind of mushroom this is, but it sure stood out among the...
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Coral Fungi
This is unusual stuff. It’s a fresh bunch of coral fungi growing among the decaying mater on a N.E. Wisconsin forest floor. Coral fungi is also commonly called club fungi. A more accurate name is...
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Heavy Lifting Morels
These are morel mushrooms. I photographed them just as I found them. As you can see, they were growing in a rocky area. It seems, as they grew, they picked up a couple of stones between them. They...
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Blushing Couple
These two, brightly-colored mushrooms stood out on the forest floor. These are very tiny; much smaller than they seem in this photo. With the unusual amount of rain we’ve been receiving, the woods had...
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Flock of Fungi
Our area received a lot of rain late summer to autumn. That provided favorable conditions for mushrooms. These are a just a few of the fungi bounty we discovered on a walk through Potawatomi Park...
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Mushrooms On Wood
On a hike through the autumn woods, I thought it was odd to find these mushrooms growing out of a fallen tree. (Or are they toad stools?) In any case, they intrigued me. You can view a larger, more...
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Tree Dwellers
It was a banner year for mushrooms in northeast Wisconsin. An abundance of rainfall seemed to keep them sprouting up to, and even beyond, the first frosts. I thought it was unusual to see so many...
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Spring Gathering
Hunting for morel mushrooms is a tradition of spring. Here are a nice batch found along a wooded path in northeast Wisconsin. There were actually two other morels in this pack, but I couldn’t fit...
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Limited Shelf Life
On one of my recent hikes through the autumn woods, I snapped a brightly colored maple leaf that found a resting place on a shelf mushroom. For those not familiar, shelf mushrooms (or bracket fungi)...
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